New Year's Day is to live a life

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For the New Year, from childhood longing, to later intentional escape, and now enjoy calmly, such a mental journey may be related to age growth.

As a child, the longing for the New Year is not difficult to understand, especially in the era of material scarcity. If you intend to escape, after becoming a wife and a mother, you are not good at housework and are afraid of the cumbersome relationship between people. In the initial year of escape, most of them chose to "charter classes" in the unit, earn some overtime pay, and do some things they like, such as reading, writing, and playing ball. This escape lasted for several years until the charter system was abolished.

Later, I also chose to travel with my family to other places, but the lonely Qing in the strange city always told his son and husband not to get used to it, saying that people rushed home for the New Year, and where there was always a reason to run out, they often made some unpleasant trouble.

Later, he simply dragged his family to live in his mother's house in the countryside. My mother is a capable woman, especially good at housework, the whole family is "covered" by my mother, especially me, over forty years old still makes her worry about not being able to buy vegetables, and I want to focus on writing articles. In her eyes, writing articles is the biggest thing, she can't replace the illiterate, she can do the rest. Just like back then, I wasn't allowed to do anything except study... This state of affairs lasted for several years, until the first Spring Festival after the death of my father.

On that day, looking at the back of the hunched arch bridge, I suddenly realized that my omnipotent mother was rapidly aging, her steps were no longer strong, her movements were somewhat slow, and even sometimes fell into a sluggish state. At that moment, I was extremely ashamed of myself for only trying to be easy...

So far, I have never escaped the Year. However, after a long time, there was still boredom and resistance to the New Year. Because not good at housework, not to say, but also to face, from hygiene cleaning, cooking dishes, to the final tidying up, every detail strives for perfection. Until last year, due to a sudden epidemic, there was no need to deliberately escape, and staying at home became the daily routine of the Spring Festival, which was unimaginable to anyone in the past.

When watching his eighteen-year-old son clumsily handle meals in the kitchen, he suddenly realized that the value of life is not necessarily bright and beautiful in front of outsiders, and sometimes he used his heart to cook a few small dishes that his family loved to eat, such a time was actually tasteful and poetic. Let their sons learn to cook, because they see on the Internet that they can't call for takeaway because of the epidemic, and many young people even have problems with three meals. In fact, in the early years, I was reluctant to let my son help with housework, but this special period of "staying at home" made me understand that the smell of fireworks in the world is the most touching.

Yes, life is not just about eating and drinking, not just about painting and calligraphy, but more importantly, an attitude, a mood. And the New Year, in fact, is to live a life, the picture is the warm and leisurely mood of the reunion of relatives and friends, there is no need to use too much force - whether it is my previous intentional escape, or deliberately trying to make the New Year better.

(The full text totals 922 words)

Author: Zheng Najun

Source: Fuzhou Daily